Engelbertha Maria Serviam Rahamitu

1. THE FIRST UNDERGRADUATE CONFERENCE ON
ELT, LINGUISTCS, AND LITERATURE 2013
By
Engelbertha Maria Serviam Rahamitu

2.  Background
 Findings and Analysis
 Conclusion

3. Background
• English as one of worldwide languages
• People learn English with bringing the
interference of their mother tongue
• Many varieties of English
• Cause misunderstandings

5. 1.What is mother tongue
and how it influence
English as a second
language?
2. What are the influences
in learning English?

6. Findings and Analysis
Mother tongue or first language is a term
that denotes not only the language one learns
from one's mother, but also the speaker's
dominant and home language (Nordquist)
Influence is a power to sway or affect
based on prestige, wealth,
ability, or position

7. Learning English or 2LA
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
Pre-Production Stage
Early Production Stage
Speech Emergence
Intermediate Fluency
Advanced
Fluency
(Stephen Krashen and Tracy Terrell, 1983)

8. The Influence of Mother Tongue in
Learning English
English Sentence Order Pronunciation
Spanish and English
German
French
Indonesian :
Javanese
Bataknesse
Papuan

9. English Sentence Order
1. Spanish
“Felipe llevó a la escuela sus libros favorites”.
If it is translated directly in English it means
“Felipe took to school his favorite books”.
In Spanish, a preposition phrase is regularly
put in front of a direct object.

10. English Sentence Order
2. German
“Ich habe meine Reisepasse vergessen”
translates literally as
“I have my passport forgotten”.
In German, infinitives and past participles
usually come at the end of the sentence.

11. English Sentence Order
3. French
“une voiture rouge”
should not be expressed in English as
“car red”
The French learner of English must
struggle against the temptation to put
attributive adjectives after the noun as they
would in their mother tongue.

12. The Influence in English Pronunciation
1. Javanese
For example in pronouncing the word
‘useful’, where it should be pronounce
/ju:sfᶷl/
they will produce it as /ju:sᶷfᶷl/

13. The Influence in English Pronunciation
1. Bataknese
The word „find‟ is pronounced /paInd/
where it should be /faInd/
Some people from Sumatra are difficult
in pronouncing the /f/ sound

14. The Influence in English Pronunciation
1. Papuan
They tend to pronounce the word ‘a
book’ as /ebᶷk/
while it should be /ᶷbᶷk/

15. CONCLUSION
People need to expand the
knowledge of language like learn more
languages and understand the system of
the language.

16. It does not matter which accent that
you have in producing English as long
as your English can be understood, be
proud of it.

17. THANK YOU